Primordial regular black holes as all the dark matter. II. Non-time-radial-symmetric and loop quantum gravity-inspired metrics

TL;DR

This paper investigates non-singular, quantum gravity-inspired black hole models as dark matter candidates, deriving constraints on their abundance and showing they could account for all dark matter within a broader mass range.

Contribution

It extends previous work by analyzing three regular, non-time-radial-symmetric black hole metrics inspired by loop quantum gravity, assessing their viability as dark matter candidates.

Findings

Weaker evaporation constraints compared to Schwarzschild black holes.

Larger mass window where PBHs can constitute all dark matter.

Potentially more than an order of magnitude shift in the lower mass limit.

Abstract

It is a common belief that a theory of quantum gravity should ultimately cure curvature singularities which are inevitable within General Relativity, and plague for instance the Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, usually considered as prototypes for primordial black holes (PBHs) as dark matter (DM) candidates. We continue our study, initiated in a companion paper, of non-singular objects as PBHs, considering three regular non-tr (non-time-radial)-symmetric metrics, all of which are one-parameter extensions of the Schwarzschild space-time: the Simpson-Visser, Peltola-Kunstatter, and D'Ambrosio-Rovelli space-times, with the latter two motivated by loop quantum gravity. We study evaporation constraints on PBHs described by these regular metrics, deriving upper limits on $f_{\text{pbh}}$, the fraction of DM in the form of PBHs. Compared to their Schwarzschild counterparts, these limits are weaker, and result in a larger asteroid mass window where all the DM can be in the form of PBHs, with the lower edge moving potentially more than an order of magnitude. Our work demonstrates as a proof-of-principle that quantum gravity-inspired space-times can simultaneously play an important role in the resolution of singularities and in the DM problem.